Sean Penn, Charlize Theron to wed?

Sean Penn and Charlize Theron plan to get married later this summer, Us Weekly and other sources are reporting.

Then, the reports say, they will adopt a child together.

Then they will spend a long Sunday afternoon at Home Depot, buy a cocker spaniel and get a membership at Costco so they can purchase massive amounts of bathroom tissue on discount.

Well, they might ... .

The reports making the rounds Thursday and Friday said Penn and Theron, who have been dating eight months, plan to get married this summer in South Africa. That's where Theron is from and where she's filming the Penn-directed film "The Last Face."

The film, executive-produced by longtime Penn collaborator Bill Pohlad is a love story following two doctors (Theron and Javier Bardem) doing humanitarian work amid political unrest.

So let's do the math here: Notoriously hot-tempered Penn, with two divorces already to his credit, is engaged and directing a film in which his betrothed gets to make out with the dreamy Javier Bardem. Nope, we can't imagine any possibility for tension there.

The reports says Penn, 53, and Theron, 38, want to adopt a child after their nuptials.

Theron has a son, Jackson, 2, and Penn has two kids, Dylan, 23, Hopper, 20, from his marriage to Robin Wright. He was also married to Madonna in the 1980s.

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Britain's Daily Mail reported that Penn was spotted arriving on Tuesday in Cape Town -- which, of course, verifies all of this.

"The Last Face" is slated for a 2015 release.

Randy McMullen provides celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Follow him at twitter.com/randymac57.

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